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Crotalaria lanceolata

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Name

Identification
Crotalaria lanceolata Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Crotalaria subcapitatata DeWild. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Crotalaria awasensis
  • Crotalaria subcapitatata
  • Crotalaria mollii
  • Crotalaria mossambicensis
  • Crotalaria unrecorded
  • Crotalaria polhillii
  • Crotalaria kirkii
  • Crotalaria lanceolata

Flora

Entry for CROTALARIA lanceolata E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CROTALARIA lanceolata E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Comm. p. 24;—Benth. l. c. p. 585.
Information
erect, herbaceous; branches virgate, angular and striate, appressedly downy; stipules obsolete; leaflets narrow-lanceolate, elongate, appressedly puberulent beneath; racemes terminal, elongating, many flowered; calyx-teeth triangular, not half as long as the tube; legume sessile, elongate, appressedly downy. Two or three feet, with the habit of a Lupin. The pubescence extremely minute. Leaflets 1 1/2–2 1/2 inches long, 2–3 lines wide, acute at each end, the upper surface, except along the midrib, quite glabrous: petioles shorter than the leaflets. Racemes 6–8 inches long, 20–30 flowered. Flowers yellow, with dark purple veins, 3–4 lines long. Pods more than an inch long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Between the Omsamculo and Omcomas, Caffraria, Drege! Port Natal, T. Williamson! Krauss (469)! Gueinzius! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.)

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